This month, as part of our ongoing Profile Series on solo and small firm lawyers doing interesting things, we’re introducing another category: solo and small firm lawyers who’ve kept their day job but have a gig on the side. Our first solo/small firm side-gigger is Alan Fanger , a lawyer located in Newton, Massachusetts with
Family law is one of those practice areas that everyone loves to hate. Clients complain not only about their partners or spouses but about the high cost of divorce, and the often protracted contentious proceedings can take a toll on family law attorneys who practice in the field. In short, family law is a practice
Ordinarily, referring to a person as a “tool” isn’t particularly complimentary because the term describes a person whose ego exceeds his talent. That said, I don’t think that this week’s guest, Legal Writing Pro Ross Guberman will take offense because his new product, Brief Catch captures Ross’ legal writing expertise and talent and makes those
This is the second part of a two part interview with Megan Zavieh of Zavieh Law and The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide for lawyers representing themselves in California disciplinary proceedings. You can read Part I here.
Once you had the idea for The Playbook, did you take steps to validate
State bar defense and ethics is one of those practice areas that I generally associate with difficult-to-research case opinions and opaque disciplinary procedures unfamiliar to most attorneys. Yet even though this practice area retains many of the characteristics of 19th century law practice, state bar defense and ethics lawyer Megan Zavieh is anything but traditional
Today we welcome another lawyer to legal tech entrepreneur, Lauren Sturdivant, CEO of Case Status, a secure platform for lawyers to communicate with clients with real-time updates, with the added cool feature of allowing satisfied clients to refer their lawyer with the click of a button. Case Status enables lawyers to respond to clients
We are back on track with our Lawyer to Legal Tech Co-Founder Series. Today, we welcome Pablo Arredondo, former litigator and Casetext Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer. Last year, I wrote that Casetext is one of the companies that is truly innovating legal research. And in fact, since my last post, Casetext has
March brings another round of Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we feature Rachael Ardanuy, owner of RZA Legal in Denver, Colorado. Ardanuy’s firm was in operation for 2.5 years focused exclusively on contract work, but last month, the firm now serves
March brings another round of Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we feature Nicole Avila, owner of Avila Law PLLC in Weston, Florida. Avila launched her firm almost two years ago after returning to her former firm following her maternity leave and
February brings more Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles — where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we feature Kristen Stanley- Wallace, owner of Stanley-Wallace Law in Slidell, Louisiana. Stanley-Wallace is an example of a woman and mom with multiple career options, with work experience at the Louisiana State